Wholemeal in Cambridge
In Cambridge, East of England, Honest Bread lists 3 bakers known for wholemeal, each baking from scratch on its own premises.
Wholemeal bakers in Cambridge
Norfolk Street Bakery
Long-established Cambridge bakery, restored and reopened in 2012, making handmade breads, cakes and Portuguese specialities. Its artisan loaves use organic flour and include sourdough, wholemeal and bloomers alongside rustic Mediterranean breads.
Stir
Cambridge bakery and cafe group whose breads, cakes and pastries are handmade and baked fresh daily at its Chesterton bakery. Its range centres on sourdoughs and other slow-fermented loaves made with organic UK-milled Shipton Mill flour.
The Cambridge Oven
Family-run artisan bakery on Hills Road opened in 2018, making breads, sourdoughs and pastries from scratch each morning. It is a Real Bread Campaign member and bakes its sourdough using natural starters with no added bakers' yeast.
Bake wholemeal at home
No honest baker near you, or none baking today? The short answer is to bake your own. This is the bench most scratch bakers start with, nothing more.
Strong wholemeal bread flour
The whole grain, nothing taken out. The loaf this bread is named for.
Compare on Amazon ↗Loaf tin
The classic wholemeal is a tin loaf. Buy one heavy enough to last.
Compare on Amazon ↗Digital kitchen scales
Real recipes are written in grams. Scales first, everything else second.
Compare on Amazon ↗Dough scraper
One flat edge does the mixing, dividing and cleaning up.
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